Woman who claims to be the nurse being kissed by the sailor in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous VJ Day 1945 photo on the cover of Life Magazine, taken in Times Square - 'Crossroads Of The World'
COP/Most decorated detective in New York history/Author 'Street Justice: The Bronx' & 'Street Warrior'/Stationed at the South Bronx's notorious 41 Precinct, known by its nickname 'Fort Apache', Served during one of city?s most dire times: the 70s & 80s
Sports historian who wrote extensively about the Yankees and collaborated with his wife on lively oral histories of Brooklyn, the Catskills and Broadway
One of the last witnesses to The Siege of Sidney Street in London on 2 January 1911. He was a a young teenager at the time and found himself caught up in the siege. Since he was a teenager in 1911, he's most likely deceased, 1970's or 1980's
(Born 8 February 1909) is a Spanish supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). He has been the oldest living man in the world since the death of Dumitru Comanescu, on 27 June 2020
9/11 first responder/fireman. Founder and director of the Patriot Group, a not-for-profit organization that specializes in assisting first responders in answering terrorism and disaster crisis emergencies
WWII: D-Day. Tech Sgt., 8th AF, 390th Bomb Group, 568th Squadron, 8th Air Force. Radio operator in a B-17 that bombed targets in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Shot down July 1944, POW in Stalag Luft IV
Psychologist, Psychotherapist & political activist. She ran for NY Lt Governor, NY Governor, US President and Vice President under either the New Alliance Party of Independence Party of New York
American game programmer who created two of the Atari 2600's biggest hits: the port of arcade game Missile Command and 1982's Demon Attack, which won Electronic Games' Game of the Year award
Research test pilot XB-60 & X-15 aircraft & other aircraft. Flew B-29 & B-50 which launched X-1 & X-2 rocket plane. 1966 became chief test pilot @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility where he tested X-15, 747 Shuttle Carri
N LAPD criminologist, Dennis Fung's responsibilities related to the analysis of crime scene evidence. As DNA evidence became significant in the Simpson trial, Fung spent more time on the stand than any other trial witness, testifying for a total of 9 days
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and one of the most decorated soldiers and paratroopers of World War II. He also received the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts
Former Corporal of the Canadian Forces, once held the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at 2,430 metres (2,657 yd, 12.08 furlongs, or 1.51 miles)
WWII: PTO. USMC fighter pilot. WIth Joe Foss at Guadalcanal (Cactus Air Force), later commanding the illustrious 'Black Sheep Squadron' and also serving in the Korean War
Dallas social worker in 1963, Furnish saw the Kennedys arrive at Dallas Love Field Airport. Throughout the 1960s, she was locally active in the civil rights movement
German physicist, astronaut. Flew on Shuttle mission STS 61-A. In college, helped dig the 'Tunnel 57' escape route under the Berlin Wall. Killed in an airshow crash in 1995